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Garden of Eden

3/6/2025

I have seen the Garden,
That which no child has seen,
Colours shown full and satisfied in.
I passed the tree of life,
The mightiest and splendid.

Allowed to enter by the cherub,
to see the dead tree,
Formerly of contrast but now just a stub.
A shadow as dark as that valley,
burned like Sheol –
Now a different contrast to all it was among.
I spoke to the cherub, asking,
What happened to the tree?
That which brought demise?
It was burned by the teacher,
who taught to be wise.

Those who came before brought death,
Defying the sequence of breath,
but the teacher rid the world of it.
satisfying man’s debt,
Now all may nurse from her breast.

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A Thousand Words (Creative)

3/6/2025

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But a single word can draw a picture. In creative writing, we use bigger more complicated words to draw open-ended pictures. One word can then draw a picture worth a thousand words. So which is more, a picture or a word that draws a picture?

We use words to describe, tell stories and even think. Imagine yourself in an art studio examining a painting. A thousand words can come to mind; what it looks like, what it makes you feel, and your interpretation of its meaning. The same thing can happen given a single word that means something to you.

Take the word Kenopsia. It may not mean anything to you now, but it describes the atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now desolate.

Now that you have the description, you have a picture of it’s meaning in your mind. Some will think of a market square at the center of town busy with citizens buying and selling, window shopping and fine dining, then at night the eerie quietness to contrast.

Another may think of a similar square then with something more tragic and terrible where the town’s people have been vacated or extinct. Or you may think of a closed mall or amusement park, a full house or the streets of New York.

These images still don’t show the emotion one has towards the scene but if the reader knows the word, the author is giving it to let the reader draw their own picture connected to their emotions along with all that has gone on in the story thus far. That is why writers don’t want to be too descriptive but use poetic language to draw a more vivid picture for the reader, that will inevitable be different in every reader’s mind.

This is why books are generally better than movies, they use words to describe and the reader does the image making. This creates a more personal connection, the writer highjacks your mind to use your imagination to write their story instead of an artist creating the image and you having to do the interpretation.

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A 3D World

3/6/2025

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Sometimes when I look at a tree or a building as I travel around them I get a perspective of awe. Seeing how the object I observe stands still as I move one way and the world behind it moves in the opposite.

The only way to explain it is in a vaguely written poem in which you have no sure idea of the meaning of each word or phrase.

I see the every day

The trees in their way

I see before them and behind them

Feeling the space around their stem

Everything everywhere my mind explores

All around each object knowledge stores

The way they move, shifting and rotating with the world around their apparatus

My mind frees to see the entire universe

I see it all as if my previous vision was a curse

All of creation lies before me

As I travel through the guarantee.

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